The Earth Says...

Take root in my body. Again and again from being scattered, from becoming desert, protect me. I will grow fertile with the caresses of your root in my womb. I will grow fertile with your forest, with the songs of your many leaves in our springs. And the flood, no black flood ever again will be able to conquer me. Come near! Like the earth, I have bared myself before you. Come near, push aside my dark veil, slide your root into the deepest of my being...